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SUBMITTER: Doverspike JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8394517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Doverspike Joshua C JC Mack Shale J SJ Luo Amy A Stringer Blake B Reno Shelby S Cornell Marie S MS Rojas-Pena Alvaro A Wu Jianfeng J Xi Chuanwu C Yevzlin Alexander A Meyerhoff Mark E ME
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20200926 40
The use of tunneled dialysis catheters (TDCs) for patients in need of hemodialysis treatments (HDs) causes a significant number of bloodstream infections (BSIs), with very few viable preventative/treatment methods. Use of antibiotics is relatively ineffective due to the development of multidrug-resistant bacterial strains and the inability to penetrate bacterial biofilms. Nitric oxide (NO) is an endogenous gas molecule that has broad-spectrum antimicrobial/antibiofilm activity. In this study, th ...[more]